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' W. A-. BARNETT. -COLLAR TURNING MACHINE. APPLICATION rim: MAR. 19-1919.

Reissued Feb. 22, 1921;

W. A. BARNETT- CDLLAR TURNING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR- 19, I919.

Reissued Feb."22,'1921. v 15,046.

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. v 7fjefijmessai' f v I M WM ence to a collar turning machine. 15 I 1 ..wn.nmm BARNETT, or LINCOLN, EBRASKA.

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I,- WILLIAM A. BanNn'rT; a citizen of the United States', residing at LincolnQin the county of Lancaster, State of V Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collar-Turning Ma-' chines; and I do hereby declare the follow ing to be a full, clear, vand exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which'it appertains to make and usethe same. i This invention is an improvement in apparel apparatus and has particular refer- In the manufacture of collars, particularly of the so called turn-down type,it is customary to first stitch one of the longitudinal edges and the ends of the several plies of-a' section of the collar and then reverse or turnthe plies inside o'ut'so that said longitudinal edges will" be positioned bet ween the two innermost plies. j e

The present invention is designedto facilitate the reversing operation and, to this end, use is made ofa stationary collar supporting member upon which the section of the collar, after the sameha's been stitched, is'mounted and which hasassoci'ated therewith a second collar supporting member adjustable we position contiguous to a portion of the section of thecollar on the stationary member, so that by pulling on 'saidsection toward said adjustable, said section drawn over said-adjustable member and thereby re;

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panying drawing'wherein U v e Figure- 1 is'a side elevation-showing the machine attached to" a support with the col memes m m r in impe at e pr.

Fig; 2 isa-sinii1ar view with 'the parts in operative position; e 1 j Fig. 3 isa topplanv-ie'w'of the machine; Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view'thereof;

a Fig. 5 is ase'c'ti'on'on'the line 5 '5 of Fig. 4; a

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section'on the line 66ofFi'g.3;' 4 Y The drawing illustrates what is now believed to -be a preferred form of the inventionwhich comprises an elongated rectangu ooLnARrunivING MACHINE.

Specification o f Reissued Letters Patent. .Reissued Feb. 22;

Original nofm'zasov, dated Jjul 30/1918; Serial, Nb. 167,563, filed iv: issue filed March 19, 1919.- Seria1 No. 283,6 5 0.

5: 9,1917. Application for relar bas'e platelO, which may secured-tea support llby screw fasteners '12. Adjacent one end of thebase'plate 1O thesame has connecte'd thereto oppositely disposed brackets or bearings 13 between which is disposed the lower end of a stationary collar support- 111g member 14 preferably in the form of an opposite end of the base plate-and tapered to a point at its free endas indicated at 15.

At a point a considerable distance from elongated arm curved inwardl'ytoward the a longitudinally extending" slot or opening 16 registering Withasimilar opening 17in the support 11 and having secured to the top thereof on each side of said opening the bear- 7 ings 18 which have pivotallymounted therethe brackets 13, thebase 10 is provided with I through the openings 16 and 17...to a point below'the support 11 and the upper portion of said member is also curved in a somewhat similar manner to the memberl l and hasjits free end tapered to a point as indicatedat 20 so that when the members 14; and 19 are in.

their operative positions, as shown in Fig. 2, the points 15 and20will be contiguous to each otherlfor a purpose; which will appear in thecourse of the description. o The base plate 101m securedto the under side thereof, adjacent the end oppositeto that to which the bracl'retsjl? are secured,

and depending through the support 11 a'pair a of brackets 21 connected at their lower. ends a-lockinigpin 22 which provides a pivot for the'oppos'itelydisposed plates 23 tapered as indicated at 24 at adjacent fends thereof and'connectedat said ends a pin 25 which has pivotally' mounted thereon the upper end of a link"connectien 26 the" lower end Qi wm' ri sipi e l y c'o rieet dt r a foot treadle: 27, pivot'allyjmounte'd between.

its" ends in brackets 28 and secured ftoth e floor beneath the support The plates are further'provi'ded 'lwith a pivot pin 29 positioned at a point intermediate the pivots 22mm- 25 and having connected thereto-one end of an actuating rodBQ provided. witha notch 31 adjacent said end'adapt'e'd to re-- ceive therein'thepivot pin 25 when the parts are in'the position shown in 2 whereby saidrod will be locked in its adjusted posirod 30 isjscrcw tion. The other end of the threaded and" mounted inf a coupling 32 pi 'voted to 'the'l ower end' of the adjustable collar supporting-member 19 as indicated at 33'. It will thus be apparent from this' rdescription that the member or arm 19 is locked in '5 its adjusted or operative position as'shown in Fig. 2.

depressing the heel end of the treadlc .,B 27, the connecting link 26 will be forced up; 'wardly' and impart a similar motion to the.

30 will be liftedand thenotch 31 thereof disengaged from. said in'sothat saidparts will be adjusted to t e position shown in 7Upon the release of the rod. 30 the arm 19 1s swungto its inoperat1ve.'position shown in Fi 1 by means of a coil spring 34 one end which issecu'redto' the'lower 2 0"end-'of saidimember at 35, while the other end thereof'is connected to theunder side of the base plate at'36. and inorder to cushion the contactbet'ween said member 19 and the base plate '10 the latter is provided with a buffer 37. It will be obvious that by depressing the foot treadle 27 in the opposite'direction from that described above, the partswill again be returned to the position shown 'in Fig. 2 against the tension of th Spengler ;.e I 1 In practice, when itis desiredutoreverse the plies of a section of a collar aftercartain "edges thereof have been stitched, v the said sectionjismounted upon the point preferably engaged at the corners thereof, as shown in dotted lines, The foot treadle 27 is' then operated to swing the .member l9 40 to thepositlon shown in Fig.'2 whereupon the point 20 thereof willenter between the two innermost plies of theicollarand will contact or be positioned-in very close proximity to. the'portion of the section of the gageinentfl 'f'thepin22 in the notch 31. The po1nt15 offthe member 14 isadapted to be mtroduced] between stitched the stitched'seam, so that said seamisubstantiall crosses the axis offthe point 15, 'b'ef ore t e garment has been reversed,'lr and the point 20 of the other arm 19 is adapted to, engage the'material at a point in alinement with and in opposition tothe first mentioned. engagement of the imaterial by the pomt .15 of the arm 14. and definethe fold 1n the material; "The operator can" thus;

grasp'the plies of the j' collar section and ing theplies will be reversed and the seam "ing, locking and unlockin of the stationary member 14 with said point located between the two innermost plies and v collar engaged by the point 15 and the mernber19will be lockedin this position by en lies of nia teL-' 7 @I p engage-the material and .center' raw or pull thesame' overfland across the, pomt 20 of saidmember .19 and in so dotreadle is then ojierate'd oppositely to re to interfere with the'engagement of a collar 'With the'j'la'tten' v What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

j 1. A garment turning machine, the combination with'a garment supporting-memfv ber, of a member movable into and out 'of position to receive the garment from the supporting member and a combined movmeans operably connected with the movab e member. 1 i

2. A garment turning machine including a base,fa stationary and. curved garment supporting arm: having one and secured to said base, an adjustable curved garment supporting arm pivoted to said base and having one end arranged in close proximity tothe free end of the stationary arm when said adjust-able arm is in operative position, and r 'meajns connected to said adjustable arm for adjusting the same to inoperative position;

3. A garment turning machine including a base, a stationary and curved garment supporting arm having one end secured to said base, an, adjustable curved garment supporting arm pivoted to said base and having one end arranged in close proximity to the .free end of the stationary arm when said adjustable arm is in [operative position, and a spring connectedlto said adjustable arm'for adjusting the same to inoperative position. a 4. A garment? turning machine including a base,'a stationary and curved garment supporting arm having'one end secured to said base, an adjustable curved garment support ing-arm'pivoted tosaid base and having one end arranged in close proximity toathe free s end of the stationary arm when said adjustable arm is'in operative, positiom-and means for releasably locking said adjustable arm in operative position: v Y v I 5; I a garment turning machine, the combination with a garment supporting memtber, of a member movable into and out of position to receivela garment from the sup-- port ng member, and means connected with the movable'member into position to receive a garment from the supporting member and.

for locking" the movablemember in such po- 's'itio'n subsequent to the movement of the mounted, a pivoted. garment; supporting member movable toward and away from a portion of; the first named supporting membervvherebyu said section of the, garment v thelrmovable member for initially moving v I may be drawn over the pivoted supporting member to reverse the same, means includmg a foot operatedtreadle for adjusting the pivoted supporting member to operative position, and means for releasably locking said pivoted supporting member in operative position.

7. A garment turning machine including a garment supporting arm, a second garment supporting arm movable toward. and away from the first mentioned arm, means for moving the second mentioned arm away from the first mentioned arm, and meansfor moving the second mentioned arm toward the first mentioned arm and for locking the second mentioned arm against movement by the first mentioned moving means.

8. In a garment turning machine, the combination with a garment supporting member, of a member movable into and out of position to receive a garment from the supporting member, and means connected with the movable member for initially moving the movable member into position to receive a garment from the supporting memher and for locking the movable member in such position subsequent to the movement of the movable means through dead center relative to the resistance of the movable member, said means being also constructed and arranged for operation to release the movable member to permit it to be moved out of its locked position.

9. A garment turning machine including a movable garment supporting arm, means for holding the movable arm yieldably against movement in one direction, means for moving the arm against the action of the holding means and for locking it againstthe actionof the holding means, said moving terial and center point in alinement with means being also operable to unlock the arm to permit it to be moved by the yieldable holdin means.

10. in a garment turning machine, the combination with a movable member, of means shiftable in one direction to initially move the movable member and to subsequently lock the movable member against movement on said means passing dead center relative to the resistance of the movable member, said means being shiftable in the opposite direction to unlock the movable member.

11. A device for turning garment-s such as collars to impart a thin smooth folded edge thereto, comprising a pair of supporting and turning arms, one of said arms being fashioned to be introduced between stitched plies of material, and reduced to a seam-centering point to engage the mathe stitched seam before the garment has: been reversed, and the other arm comprising a member reduced to a folddefining point extending, when in operative position, toward the first mentioned point and adapted to engage the material at a and in opposition to said first mentioned engagement thereof, so that the reversing of the garment to removethe same from the first mentioned arm onto the second mentioned arm will efi'ect the formation of a sharp fold contiguous to the seam, thus securing a sharp even turnin of the garment. n witness whereof I hereunto subscribe my'name this 27th day of December, 1918. WILLIAMA. BARNETT.

Witnesses:

A. E. HoWARn', H. G. SCHWARTZ. 

